“I’m Not Good Enough”

As a hypnotherapist and anxiety specialist for nearly 12 years now, I have come across the belief that “I’m not good enough” so many times that I’m fed up of writing it so in my client notes it’s just INGE syndrome.

I probably see this in 70 – 80% of my clients. The strange thing is most of my clients believe that it is just the way they were born. This is definitely not the case.

UK men and women are fatter than ever.By Paul Howard

Both UK men and women are in Europe’s fattest top ten.

The fact is that there is a direct correlation between our weight increase and the increase in sugars that we eat. It is said that in the UK we eat on average 2 pounds of sugar every week. It is not all sugars that are the problem…..

Ambulances are set to get bigger!By Paul Howard

Ambulances are the latest vehicles to face up to one inarguable fact – as a nation, we are getting bigger and that poses a huge design headache.

Nowadays warnings about rising obesity levels are in almost every headline – as a result of which, ironically, the advice suggests we need to be moving more and eating less. Surprise surprise! The point is that the vast majority of people who are overweight already know that. The problem is how do they achieve that.

The Surrey Institute tackles the obesity problem from a different angle.

GP’s are finding effective ways to cut the NHS bill

The government has announced this week its new mental health strategy for England and promises an extra £400m for therapies, such as counselling, so as to increase access to them by 60% by 2015. This together with the shift of NHS spending to the GP’s might explain why we at The Surrey Institute of Clinical Hypnotherapy have been approached by two local GP’s this week to discuss sending their patients to us for effective help with smoking cessation.

Relationships are damaged by lack of sleep.

According to a new report published by the Mental Health Foundation, insomnia needs to be treated as a major health issue.

The report called “Sleep Matters” suggests there is a link between insomnia and poor relationships, and also low energy levels and an inability to concentrate.

Anxiety Loses When Fought With Hypnotherapy

How is anxiety generated, maintained and enhanced. There are ways to combat it that perhaps you haven’t tried. Hypnotherapy is backed by a raft of scientific research and is very effective in the fight to remove anxiety.

Obviously people with Psoriasis deserve it!

For anybody that does not have the condition Psoriasis it would seem ludicrous to suggest that they deserve to suffer from this condition. However, during the study I conducted on the effects of Hypnotherapy upon Psoriasis, this is one of the core beliefs that I discovered a Psoriasis sufferer has.

Don’t miss the trance to lose your fear

What is Anxiety? How does it develop? Most of us have experienced anxiety at some time in our life but for some of us it becomes a debilitating force that if left untreated can continue to get worse.

The Great New Year Change

At this time of year we see many hypnotherapists, diet clubs, weight loss clinics, stop smoking clinics and ad after ad on the TV telling you that they can help you stop eating, smoking and drinking and/or helping you to exercise more. But is this really what you want to do?

Psoriasis an Angry Man’s Game

For nearly 10 years I’ve been using hypnotherapy to help clients with Psoriasis.  I have noticed three particular personality traits that seem common to most clients I see.  But more of that later…
 
When I first started working with clients who had Psoriasis, I conducted a study into the effectiveness of hypnotherapy on the condition.  Initially I didn’t expect too much, however the results were staggering.  
 

Hypnotherapy for claustrophobia may well unlock the confined spaces

claustrophobia

It is a common phobia and at its most severe it could devastate your daily life. When considering the various common scenarios that are able to trigger claustrophobia, you begin to discover precisely how small a chance the sufferer has to evade the anxiety. In addition to the avoidance of aeroplanes or possibly lifts, some …

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